2024-07-20 01:25:36
Carolina Tohá led the meeting on violence in the RM at La Moneda, where the police chiefs, the prosecutor Ángel Valencia, the undersecretary Monsalve and the presidential delegate, Gonzalo Durán, participated.
Vice President Carolina Tohá announced a series of measures to address the security crisis that the country is experiencingafter leading a meeting in La Moneda following the wave of violence that has left 18 people dead in recent days in the Metropolitan Region (RM).
The meeting, which began at 08:00, was attended by the acting Minister of the Interior, Manuel Monsalve; the national prosecutor, Angel Valencia; the general director of Carabineros, Ricardo Yanez; the director general of the PDI, Eduardo Cernaand the Metropolitan Presidential Delegate, Gonzalo Duran.
According to what Tohá said, the meeting defined Five measures to strengthen police workmainly preventive, in the capital.
Joint police task force
Following the wave of violence in RM, he mentioned that “We are going to form a joint task force of both police forces.with the support of the National Prosecutor’s Office, which will imply that the intelligence task of both police forces will be coordinated to strengthen its work in the most complex sectors“.
In addition, the Secretary of State announced the reinforcement of the Carabineros and PDI forces. In the case of the former, there are several lines of action, including: the destination of recent graduates, as well as the reorganization of the personnel currently in serviceto allocate more personnel to field work.
Along these lines, Undersecretary Monsalve confirmed that lThe 500 police officers who will graduate this year “will all remain in the Metropolitan Region”.
Another of the measures announced by Carolina Tohá is related to the work of the PDI, in the sense of “improve their arms control capabilitiesin addition to strengthening its work on the country’s borders.
In addition, the authority pointed out the urgency of accelerating “a new stage of the ECOH units with the Prosecutor’s Office, with a focus on the most serious homicides. Their work must be strengthened“, he emphasized.